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Any 9/11 stories from posters on here?
Posted on 9/11/26 at 4:43 pm
Posted on 9/11/26 at 4:43 pm
We have a vast amount of people with diff backgrounds on TD, I am wondering if any of you experienced 9/11 in person or had friends/family with stories from the day.
Feel free to share.
Have some random tidbits myself.
The gentleman who did our catholic confirmation classes was in the Pentagon when the plane hit. He didn't tell us much about it other than he was never more scared in his life.
I saw the twin towers on vacation the summer of 2001, my mom said something ominous like "get a good look you'll never know when you'll see them again."
My dad thought 9/11 was originally the new Spiderman trailer when the news first broke.
My family visited in 2002 and all the missing posters and ruins were still up, I was a kid but I remember the thousands of pictures plastered on fences, building walls, etc.
I have one more but can't remember off the top of my head, I'll update if it comes back to me.
Edit:
Bin Laden stories
Nerdy art school type girl from my HS’ father was the lead commander of the Bin Laden raid. He’s the guy on the laptop next to Obama in the famous war room pic.
My brothers base was attacked in Iraq when they killed Bin Laden. Was the most serious firefight he dealt with during his tour and saw a fellow soldier get directly hit by a mortar and essentially disappear. Scary stuff.
Feel free to share.
Have some random tidbits myself.
The gentleman who did our catholic confirmation classes was in the Pentagon when the plane hit. He didn't tell us much about it other than he was never more scared in his life.
I saw the twin towers on vacation the summer of 2001, my mom said something ominous like "get a good look you'll never know when you'll see them again."
My dad thought 9/11 was originally the new Spiderman trailer when the news first broke.
My family visited in 2002 and all the missing posters and ruins were still up, I was a kid but I remember the thousands of pictures plastered on fences, building walls, etc.
I have one more but can't remember off the top of my head, I'll update if it comes back to me.
Edit:
Bin Laden stories
Nerdy art school type girl from my HS’ father was the lead commander of the Bin Laden raid. He’s the guy on the laptop next to Obama in the famous war room pic.
My brothers base was attacked in Iraq when they killed Bin Laden. Was the most serious firefight he dealt with during his tour and saw a fellow soldier get directly hit by a mortar and essentially disappear. Scary stuff.
This post was edited on 9/11/26 at 6:00 pm
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:04 pm to Audioman213
Not huge (like in PA/NY/DC/VA) ... but I was impacted. Was flying to Greenville/Spartanburg SC for my business. Normally, I would fly early (4am), but not that day.
Was forced to land in Gainesville GA. I couldn't get my aircraft in the air for 10 days, IIRC.
Later when I got home... I was interviewed by the local FBI, investigating one of my contractors, a foreigner, who had taken flight lessons at Bessemer. Once they understood the contractor was a female from India, we didn't need to continue.
Much later, I believe it was disclosed one (or two) of the skyjackers had used that FBO to obtain training.
Was forced to land in Gainesville GA. I couldn't get my aircraft in the air for 10 days, IIRC.
Later when I got home... I was interviewed by the local FBI, investigating one of my contractors, a foreigner, who had taken flight lessons at Bessemer. Once they understood the contractor was a female from India, we didn't need to continue.
Much later, I believe it was disclosed one (or two) of the skyjackers had used that FBO to obtain training.
This post was edited on 9/11/26 at 5:11 pm
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:05 pm to Audioman213
Wife's uncle had a sales meeting at WTC 1 but cab was running late. He saw planes hit. Was stuck in NYC for a week and was three days before he could get word to family that he was okay.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:07 pm to TechBullDawg
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was three days before he could get word to family that he was okay.
bi far the worst part of his experience I am almost certain
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:11 pm to Audioman213
Wife was 7 months pregnant with our first born and I was serving in the Army at Schofield Barracks at the time, so it was like 5am when it happened and I had just made it in for PT when we heard. I didn't live on base, but just off post and would go home to shower before coming back for morning formation. Not that day though. Didn't go home for a couple days and then it was to pack a bag to head off to the middle east somewhere. I was more worried for my wife than myself at the time.
Bad times all around.
Bad times all around.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:11 pm to Audioman213
1. My uncle designed, developed, and ran the restaurant at the top of the North Tower, Windows on the World. He died in 1998, but many people my cousins knew still worked at Windows and were killed on 9/11. About 80 employees and 120 customers were killed. Awful timing, the restaurant was seldom open for breakfast. There was a special event that morning, however.
2. Close friend from high school filmed the best video of a closeup of the collapse of the South Tower. He was a doctor rushed downtown to see if he could help. He arrived at the tower just as it came down. Worth watching (8 minutes).
2. Close friend from high school filmed the best video of a closeup of the collapse of the South Tower. He was a doctor rushed downtown to see if he could help. He arrived at the tower just as it came down. Worth watching (8 minutes).
This post was edited on 9/11/26 at 5:28 pm
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:16 pm to Audioman213
I was an Air Traffic Controller at Jacksonville Center, I was working when the FAA made every aircraft regardless of where they were going, to land at the nearest airport . I was working the Charlotte - Charleston area , it got busy.
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Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:18 pm to Audioman213
Nothing of significance, but I went home for an early lunch that morning. As I’m driving back to work the block around the federal building in downtown Athens was closed. There must have been 20 police cars and UGAs bomb squad was going through a Ryder truck parked in front. It was a very hopeless feeling thinking, even here? Turned out to be nothing, thankfully.
Also, I had just graduated and gotten my first job. A couple other young guys and i talked about whether we’d have our jobs if we got drafted.
Also, I had just graduated and gotten my first job. A couple other young guys and i talked about whether we’d have our jobs if we got drafted.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:18 pm to captainFid
I think Butch was at the Pentagon that day.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:21 pm to GatorOnAnIsland
quote:
was an Air Traffic Controller
Mad respect for you. I'm a pilot. ATC is the best.
On 9/11 did you have any pilots balk at the order to land ?
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:22 pm to Audioman213
My neighbors best friend was walking out of the building across the street when the first plane hit. He saw people jumping from the building. Horrible horrible.
Yet those mf’ers voted in someone who supports what they did. NYC can burn in hell.
Yet those mf’ers voted in someone who supports what they did. NYC can burn in hell.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:23 pm to BoarEd
Thanks for your service.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:23 pm to IvoryBillMatt
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:31 pm to GatorOnAnIsland
I’ll never forget the landline call from ZME. He said, “We’re going to start flashing inbounds to you that don’t normally land there. We’re putting everyone on the ground.” The National Airspace System had already stopped all departures, so it wasn’t anything complicated, but I’d sure never seen the entire system shut down.
A few minutes after all the arrivals had landed, we got a call asking if we had radar coverage over Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Plant. We did, and we were advised that they’d put fighters on any target in that vicinity. At that point, I really wasn’t sure how the day would end.
A few minutes after all the arrivals had landed, we got a call asking if we had radar coverage over Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Plant. We did, and we were advised that they’d put fighters on any target in that vicinity. At that point, I really wasn’t sure how the day would end.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:33 pm to Audioman213
Someone I knew, our kids were on a basketball team together, survived 9/11 from within Tower 2. Most of us never asked him about it personally, but a few years ago he gave his story to a local magazine.
“I was just recently married, lived in Houston and worked for Morgan Stanley. At Morgan Stanley, you’re an advisor working through other senior advisors and you train in New York for roughly three months. I got to New York on maybe the last walk on the Wall Street floor at the stock exchange, since they don’t do that anymore. We were in Tower 2. Morgan Stanley had several floors. All trainees were in one hotel, the bus picked us up in the morning and drove us to Tower 2. We would go down to the 'basement,' and it would take us up. There were two elevators. One would take you to the 45th level and another cuts over to get to the 60th floor.
On that day, September 11th, it was a beautiful day, the skies were clear, I was going through my normal routine and we were in training. One of the lead analysts was just completing his session of stock market history. After that, we all took a break and boom! I started to see paper flying out. I hadn’t been to New York ever and I thought someone was maybe partying because they were celebrating a big trade or something because you’re seeing all this paper. When the filing cabinets came flying, I knew something bad was happening.
I was looking out from the 60th floor at Tower 1 because Tower 1 got hit first. Over the speaker, Morgan Stanley security said, “A small plane has hit Tower 1. For the safety of all Morgan Stanley employees, we’d like to evacuate.” I left all of my stuff at my desk and headed down the stairwell with everybody else. No one knew what was going on, so we’re all casually going out all calm. We got down to about the 45th floor and nothing had happened yet. I was going to get off because I had left my laptop. Someone said, 'Hey, I wouldn’t do that just yet. Let’s not stop.” It was the best decision ever not to go back up, because my life would have been impacted.
So I kept going down about five or 10 more floors and boom! We didn’t hear it but you could feel the building sway. That’s when chaos happened in the stairwell. Fear because you’re encased, there’s no windows, and this was years and years ago so connectivity was not what it is now, no one knows what is happening, and everyone is pushing each other out of the way, trying to stay calm. I was trying to stay with other people but I didn’t understand what could possibly happen.
I think some folks who'd been around for a while were very fearful. They had a lot of ideas what could happen.
As we got closer to the bottom, firefighters were coming. If you’ve seen the movie Backdraft, it’s almost identical to that. You’ve got firefighters coming up and us going down the stairs. So we got to the bottom of the stairs and they were pushing us out one way and there was a reason behind that because the way the towers were positioned, some people were jumping. For the protection of the folks coming out of the building, they had people coming out of the lobby where the shops were.
As I exited the building, I’ll never forget this -- I’ve never seen so many white sheets. As a 22-23 year old kid, I was new to everything. People are jumping off and they’re up 80 levels, because they were either going to burn or jump. It was pretty nasty. Scary. [Pauses] It’ll never be erased from my mind. They moved us over to the church, which is still standing today. One of my fellow trainees was from the Houston area as well, and he had an engineering degree and really thought we needed to keep moving because if the steel in the building got hot enough, it was going to collapse. So we started walking toward Jackson Square and about eight or 10 minutes later, Tower 2 collapsed.
You look back and you’re in shock. You don’t know what’s happening. All cell phone connectivity was down. You had no contact with anybody. We’re walking through the city in shock trying to get back to our hotel.
Once back to our hotel, I couldn’t be reached. My wife told me they had gotten her out of her classroom in Houston where she was teaching to ask where I was. She said, 'He’s on Wall Street.' They said, 'Do you know where he is?' And she said, 'I have no idea. He’s just on Wall Street.' My sister-in-law or mom had called and said, 'Kyle is in Tower 2. He can’t be reached.'
It’s pretty sad [pauses and starts to tear up]; it gets me every time. No one knew. It could be five hours of not knowing if you’re alive. So everyone’s mind got warped pretty negative because they all thought I was gone. My father-in-law was calling his investment banker buddies trying to find anyone who knew. Everyone was trying to find me and eventually they found out I was safe and back at the hotel. But it didn’t stop there.
What’s unique is that I was trying to get out of the city, like everyone else, and we were going to get on a train going to Delaware and I think they caught one of the terrorists on there. It felt like everything was falling and I just took a deep breath and I was like, 'Alright, we’re not going to rush things.'
It was the craziest time. It probably took me three years with PTSD. I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t understand why God saved me. I didn’t have anything. I was a 22-year-old kid. I mean, I had a wife but I didn’t have kids. There are so many great mothers and fathers that are not there to see their kids. I didn’t understand. I was feeling guilty.
For years I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t talk about my story. Over time I got to: 'What is my purpose?' And that's to get people to have gratitude for their life experiences. I get it now. Finally I’m able to tell people how difficult it was to deal with and yes, it brings back bad memories, but look where you are and look how you can make an impact in the world -- especially in today’s world.'
That’s the stance I’ve taken, that this is my purpose. It took me a while to get there. Once I figured that out, I was able to get through September 11th. In years past, I just struggled. I just couldn’t understand: 'Why me? Why save me?'"
“I was just recently married, lived in Houston and worked for Morgan Stanley. At Morgan Stanley, you’re an advisor working through other senior advisors and you train in New York for roughly three months. I got to New York on maybe the last walk on the Wall Street floor at the stock exchange, since they don’t do that anymore. We were in Tower 2. Morgan Stanley had several floors. All trainees were in one hotel, the bus picked us up in the morning and drove us to Tower 2. We would go down to the 'basement,' and it would take us up. There were two elevators. One would take you to the 45th level and another cuts over to get to the 60th floor.
On that day, September 11th, it was a beautiful day, the skies were clear, I was going through my normal routine and we were in training. One of the lead analysts was just completing his session of stock market history. After that, we all took a break and boom! I started to see paper flying out. I hadn’t been to New York ever and I thought someone was maybe partying because they were celebrating a big trade or something because you’re seeing all this paper. When the filing cabinets came flying, I knew something bad was happening.
I was looking out from the 60th floor at Tower 1 because Tower 1 got hit first. Over the speaker, Morgan Stanley security said, “A small plane has hit Tower 1. For the safety of all Morgan Stanley employees, we’d like to evacuate.” I left all of my stuff at my desk and headed down the stairwell with everybody else. No one knew what was going on, so we’re all casually going out all calm. We got down to about the 45th floor and nothing had happened yet. I was going to get off because I had left my laptop. Someone said, 'Hey, I wouldn’t do that just yet. Let’s not stop.” It was the best decision ever not to go back up, because my life would have been impacted.
So I kept going down about five or 10 more floors and boom! We didn’t hear it but you could feel the building sway. That’s when chaos happened in the stairwell. Fear because you’re encased, there’s no windows, and this was years and years ago so connectivity was not what it is now, no one knows what is happening, and everyone is pushing each other out of the way, trying to stay calm. I was trying to stay with other people but I didn’t understand what could possibly happen.
I think some folks who'd been around for a while were very fearful. They had a lot of ideas what could happen.
As we got closer to the bottom, firefighters were coming. If you’ve seen the movie Backdraft, it’s almost identical to that. You’ve got firefighters coming up and us going down the stairs. So we got to the bottom of the stairs and they were pushing us out one way and there was a reason behind that because the way the towers were positioned, some people were jumping. For the protection of the folks coming out of the building, they had people coming out of the lobby where the shops were.
As I exited the building, I’ll never forget this -- I’ve never seen so many white sheets. As a 22-23 year old kid, I was new to everything. People are jumping off and they’re up 80 levels, because they were either going to burn or jump. It was pretty nasty. Scary. [Pauses] It’ll never be erased from my mind. They moved us over to the church, which is still standing today. One of my fellow trainees was from the Houston area as well, and he had an engineering degree and really thought we needed to keep moving because if the steel in the building got hot enough, it was going to collapse. So we started walking toward Jackson Square and about eight or 10 minutes later, Tower 2 collapsed.
You look back and you’re in shock. You don’t know what’s happening. All cell phone connectivity was down. You had no contact with anybody. We’re walking through the city in shock trying to get back to our hotel.
Once back to our hotel, I couldn’t be reached. My wife told me they had gotten her out of her classroom in Houston where she was teaching to ask where I was. She said, 'He’s on Wall Street.' They said, 'Do you know where he is?' And she said, 'I have no idea. He’s just on Wall Street.' My sister-in-law or mom had called and said, 'Kyle is in Tower 2. He can’t be reached.'
It’s pretty sad [pauses and starts to tear up]; it gets me every time. No one knew. It could be five hours of not knowing if you’re alive. So everyone’s mind got warped pretty negative because they all thought I was gone. My father-in-law was calling his investment banker buddies trying to find anyone who knew. Everyone was trying to find me and eventually they found out I was safe and back at the hotel. But it didn’t stop there.
What’s unique is that I was trying to get out of the city, like everyone else, and we were going to get on a train going to Delaware and I think they caught one of the terrorists on there. It felt like everything was falling and I just took a deep breath and I was like, 'Alright, we’re not going to rush things.'
It was the craziest time. It probably took me three years with PTSD. I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t understand why God saved me. I didn’t have anything. I was a 22-year-old kid. I mean, I had a wife but I didn’t have kids. There are so many great mothers and fathers that are not there to see their kids. I didn’t understand. I was feeling guilty.
For years I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t talk about my story. Over time I got to: 'What is my purpose?' And that's to get people to have gratitude for their life experiences. I get it now. Finally I’m able to tell people how difficult it was to deal with and yes, it brings back bad memories, but look where you are and look how you can make an impact in the world -- especially in today’s world.'
That’s the stance I’ve taken, that this is my purpose. It took me a while to get there. Once I figured that out, I was able to get through September 11th. In years past, I just struggled. I just couldn’t understand: 'Why me? Why save me?'"
This post was edited on 9/11/26 at 5:34 pm
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:34 pm to IvoryBillMatt
quote:both are wow... but seeing your friend in that video, oh my. I hope breathing all that concrete cloud hasn't hurt his lungs.
2. Close friend from high school filmed the best video of a closeup of the collapse of the South Tower. He was a doctor who arrived at the tower just as it came down. Worth watching (8 minutes).
I still despise anyone associated with this event. The have won, in a some ways. Before that day, we had occasional terror attacks (notably the Oki-City bombing) but nothing like this.
As a country we saw terror attacks as something which happened somewhere else, on the other side of the world. Now, we take our shoes and belts off at the airport, and don't think twice about it. Before, I could buy a airline ticket second-hand off craigslist to fly somewhere. The ticket was just that.
And the government works to trace any and every part of our lives today.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:39 pm to captainFid
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but seeing your friend in that video, oh my. I hope breathing all that concrete cloud hasn't hurt his lungs.
He was a nerdy guy in high school. He was a real hero on 9/11. As of two years ago his health was still fine.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:43 pm to captainFid
Thanks for the response. That restaurant was truly magical with its view.
After my uncle's death, my cousins were bought out of the business. Saved their lives. Of course, everyone at Windows died that morning.
After my uncle's death, my cousins were bought out of the business. Saved their lives. Of course, everyone at Windows died that morning.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:44 pm to idlewatcher
My wife's company had offices high up in World Trade 2. The second plane hit 1 floor below. They had stayed to back up their financial files for their New Jersey office for the trading done for that day from the stock market. Lost 87 workers.
She worked in San Francisco office and dealt with alot of the people in NY office.
We traveled to New York 1 week before the main visitor center opened. They had a temporary Visitor/ Gift center. .We saw the names of all My wifes co-workers on the engraved stone. It is hard to go there and not remember that day like it was yesterday.
I bought a 9/11 flag that i put up every year.
I worked right across 101 from San Jose runway landing from San Francisco Bay. Fighter Jets were circling and escorting planes in.to land.
I grew up next to the Air Force Base they took President Bush too .. They got him out of there pretty quick as it was in the middle of War Games exercise with B52's on the runway waiting to take off.
I agree the people of NYC have disgraced their memory electing Mandami. Someone who probably celebrated that attack.
I dont blame the families for not wanting him there. I know i wouldn't.
She worked in San Francisco office and dealt with alot of the people in NY office.
We traveled to New York 1 week before the main visitor center opened. They had a temporary Visitor/ Gift center. .We saw the names of all My wifes co-workers on the engraved stone. It is hard to go there and not remember that day like it was yesterday.
I bought a 9/11 flag that i put up every year.
I worked right across 101 from San Jose runway landing from San Francisco Bay. Fighter Jets were circling and escorting planes in.to land.
I grew up next to the Air Force Base they took President Bush too .. They got him out of there pretty quick as it was in the middle of War Games exercise with B52's on the runway waiting to take off.
I agree the people of NYC have disgraced their memory electing Mandami. Someone who probably celebrated that attack.
I dont blame the families for not wanting him there. I know i wouldn't.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 5:45 pm to 257WBY
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never forget the landline call from ZME.
Bet you won't. What a story!
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